On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 2:53:00 pm UTC+10, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> NickB <nic...@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Thanks Dave,
> > I'm actually one of the (volunteer) curators of the Hursley museum.
> > We've been searching for one for some time now, but it seems that they
> > were all leased so when the customer no longer wanted them, they were
> > scrapped.
> >
> > We do however live in hope that one might have escaped, hence my post.
> IBM 3624
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3624
>
> The IBM 3624 was a late 1970s second-generation automatic teller machine
> (ATM), a successor to the IBM 3614. Designed at the IBM Los Gatos lab,
> the IBM 3624, along with the later IBM 4732 model, was manufactured at
> IBM facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina and Havant, England until
> all operations were sold to Diebold, tied to the formation of the
> InterBold partnership between IBM and Diebold
>
> ... snip ...
>
> I had offices and labs for a time in Los Gatos lab (since been plowed
> under and sold off for a housing development) ... but it was after the
> 3614 time ... I did hear stories from some of the people that had been
> there.
>
> One of the projects that I had out at los gatos lab was some of
> high speed data transport ... some past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
>
> IBM had put in collins digital radio (T3 microwave) between bldg 12 on
> the main plant site ... to repeater over the hill down to STL (since
> renamed silicon valley lab) and repeater above Los Gatos lab (and the
> hill above los gatos dump).
>
> HSDT put in 4.5M tdma satellite dish in the Los Gatos back parking lot
> another in in back lot behind IBM Yorktown research ... and a 7M dish in
> Austin.
>
> Los gatos had also done LSM (specialized chip design logic simulator
> that ran something like 50,000 times faster than 168-3 ... doing logic
> simulation) ... and Austin was shipping RIOS (RS/6000) chip logic design
> to Los Gatos for validation. some RISC/ROMP/RIOS/etc past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
>
> after I left IBM ... was involved in designing electronic payment
> transaction protocols and chipcards ... recent mention
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#6 Is it a lost cause?
>
> reference to nacha/star did pilot of part of one of the protocols;
> 23july2001 (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine)
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
>
> other posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
>
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Hi there. We have 1 x IBM 3624 ATM that bought from a NZ Bank and is now in Australia. It has been sitting in a crate for nearly 30 years.